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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

AMC's Fear the Walking Dead (2.53) won another Sunday night, but
it may be the last time it can say that for awhile. It was down 18% from
last week's premiere, and once again was down by 38% from the
corresponding season one episode. And that's before Game of Thrones even comes back as head-to-head competition. That looms next week.

Continuing to track the Fear editions of Talking Dead... in week two, it dropped to 0.84, now retaining just 33% of the Fear demo. Remember from last week that the spring editions after the mothership never went worse than 37%.

A couple low-rated returnees came back on new nights this week: 12 Monkeys (0.14) on Syfy and Orphan Black (0.08) on BBC America. Monkeys moved from Friday to Monday and shed two-thirds of last year's series premiere rating. (It was kinda within striking distance of the season one low point (0.17), though.) And Orphan Black moved from its usual Saturday perch to Thursday, giving up more than half of its 0.19 premiere audience from a year ago.

TBS' The Detour (0.35) and Starz' Outlander (0.27) each took sizable tumbles from their promising premieres last week. Detour is still ahead of what Angie Tribeca was doing on Mondays, but now by less than a tenth.

FULL TABLE:

Name

Net

Ep

A18-49

Last

Seas

Avg

y2y

Proj

ProjPlus

Skew

Male

Fear the Walking Dead

AMC

2

2.53

-18%

2

2.80

-39%

2.37

161

58%

Talking Dead: Fear

AMC

2

0.84

-20%

1

0.95

0.76

52

56%

Better Call Saul

AMC

10

0.85

+4%

2

0.89

-42%

0.89

61

52%

67%

Vikings

HIST

9

0.63

-5%

4

0.67

-16%

0.68

46

38%

57%

Bates Motel

A&E

6

0.49

-16%

4

0.58

-26%

0.55

37

51%

39%

American Dad!

TBS

12

0.56

-5%

11

0.56

-7%

0.55

37

68%

Archer

FX

3

0.41

0%

7

0.45

-22%

0.43

29

66%

69%

The Detour

TBS

3

0.35

-24%

1

0.44

0.35

24

55%

Broad City

COME

9

0.30

-12%

1

0.36

0.36

24

75%

Awkward

MTV

17

0.32

+14%

3

0.35

-31%

0.35

24

67%

27%

Outlander

STAR

2

0.27

-31%

2

0.33

+27%

0.33

23

31%

Underground

WGNA

6

0.29

-15%

1

0.30

0.29

20

38%

40%

Outsiders

WGNA

12

0.31

-3%

1

0.28

0.29

19

45%

56%

The Americans

FX

5

0.25

-22%

4

0.28

-19%

0.25

17

37%

58%

Girls

HBO

10

0.22

-6%

5

0.24

-16%

0.24

17

57%

46%

Vinyl

HBO

10

0.20

-17%

1

0.22

0.22

15

44%

62%

Faking It

MTV

15

0.17

-11%

2

0.22

-41%

0.22

15

60%

24%

Motive

USA

3

0.18

-18%

3

0.20

0.17

12

37%

Damien

A&E

7

0.16

-11%

1

0.19

0.18

12

48%

36%

Wynonna Earp

SYFY

3

0.18

+20%

1

0.18

0.16

11

32%

House of Lies

SHOW

2

0.18

+6%

5

0.17

-42%

0.14

10

54%

Stitchers

FREE

4

0.16

+45%

2

0.15

-62%

0.13

9

48%

12 Monkeys

SYFY

1

0.14

2

0.14

-67%

0.08

5

37%

Hunters

SYFY

2

0.10

-38%

1

0.13

0.09

6

34%

Dice

SHO

2

0.07

-36%

1

0.09

0.07

5

53%

Orphan Black

BBCA

1

0.08

4

0.08

-58%

0.06

4

44%

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